Monday, November 19, 2007

The Ultimate Embarrassment for Alabama

Much has been made of Nick Saban's contract, which at $4 million a year, makes him the highest-paid coach in Division I-A.

Turns out his Alabama team just lost to Louisiana Monroe's Charlie Weatherbie, right, who is the lowest-paid coach in I-A. Weatherbie's salary is $130,000 a year. That's mere pocket change to Saban.

How desperate did Saban get during Saturday's 21-14 loss? The site From The Bleachers also reports that Saban started standout receiver DJ Hall in the second half after it was earlier announced that Hall would be suspended for the game because of a violation of team policy.

#1 You are referring to conference teams beating other conference teams in the Big 12 and Pac 10. This isn't a conference team, this is a terrible, barely D1 team that beat a supposedly good 'Bama team (who also incidentilly shoul've lost to Houston.)

#2 Oregon had lost their best player and most important player against Arizona. With Dixon, 'Zona gets killed.

The SEC is a great conference, but this year it has looked bad at times in out of conference games and I think that LSU scraping by against these teams that can't handle the louisiana monroes's of the world doesn't look good.